Thanks, Rick. The rescue vehicle (or whatever they call them now) was quite
close. But it had merely reacted to the Emergency State called by ATC; it
livened up the day for them.
Chris
On 5 Jul 2012, at 18:06, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Lovely image Chris... at first I thought that fire wagon was attacking the
> ME-109(?)
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Bob (and others)
>>
>> Sorry, that was a single image outside SmugMug, which is not what I
>> intended.
>>
>> Here is a link to the gallery:
>>
>> http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/13807540_dz53NK
>>
>> The images I mean are at the end.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 5 Jul 2012, at 17:38, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>
>>> Nice one. Did you get closer?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was on the phone trying to get a network problem sorted out when I
>> saw this lovely old beast through the window that overlooks the airfield,
>> at work.
>>>>
>>>> <
>> http://images.threeshoes.biz/Airplanes/Flying/i-T9HWmKn/0/L/D2012CB2277-ME109-L.jpg
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The pilot, one Cliff Spink, was on his way from Duxford
>> (Cambridgeshire) to Humberside (further north, near Yorkshire) when the
>> cowling on one side of the engine started to come adrift. He landed at my
>> airfield, Wyton (also in Cambridgeshire) to sort it out. My telephone
>> interlocutor allowed me to leave him hanging on the line while I ran out to
>> catch a couple of images of the old "enemy" :-)
>>>>
>>>> The aircraft's owner is one Richard Lake, MD Eastern Airways, who also
>> owns a rather nice Spitfire. Cliff is an ex-RAF 2 star (Air Vice Marshal)
>> who displays both WWII aircraft.
>>>
>>
>
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